Houston Astros assistant general manager Brandon Taubman reportedly directed a reference to the team's 2018 acquisition of Roberto Osuna to a group of female reporters. Osuna was serving a long 75-game suspension for violating MLB's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse policy at the time of the trade.
According to Sports Illustrated's Stephanie Apstein, the incident occurred as the Astros were celebrating their American League Championship Series victory over the New York Yankees: "And in the center of the room, assistant general manager Brandon Taubman turned to a group of three female reporters, including one wearing a purple domestic-violence awareness bracelet, and yelled, half a dozen times, 'Thank God we got Osuna!